Testing Jon’s video posting trick. I think it’s working!!

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I was very excited to learn that iTunes, in it’s “1st Birthday for Podcasting” section today, has selected Buzz Out Loud as one of it’s “pioneering shows” that have “paved the way” for podcasting! We’re there on the first page with TWiT, Tiki Bar TV, and Rocketboom. We’ve been on the air even before iTunes began podcasting, but without their help we’d have never reached as many people as we have. Happy Podcasting birthday, iTunes, and thanks!

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Tom and I recently shot a video called “Podcasting 101,” where we gave some tips on how to create your own podcast. I’m kind of glad that I hadn’t heard about the Pinnacle Podcast Factory from Pinnacle Systems. This things looks pretty rad:

• Podcast Factory
  The Podcast Factory professional audio interface brings your computer both microphone and instrument inputs, plus headphone and stereo outputs—all via a simple USB cable. It can also double as a professional audio interface for most popular music software like Apple GarageBand, Sony Acid, and Magix Music Maker.
• M-Audio Broadcast Microphone Included
  Use the included microphone with desktop stand to record broadcast-quality speech for professional-sounding podcasts—instruments too.
• Editor Software
  The package includes software that makes it simple to record and edit basic audio content, then convert it to MP3 files for posting on Web podcast sites.
• Ableton Live Lite 4
  This special edition of Ableton’s award-winning Live software lets you easily produce more sophisticated shows containing speech, music, sound effects and more. It even lets non-musicians create custom soundtracks for any podcast.
• Podifier
  Podifier is a simple-to-use application that automates the creation of an RSS feed, the enclosing of one or more MP3 files and the FTP application to upload them to a server.

from Product Summary

Intense. Pinnacle is a division of Avid, who also owns Pro-Tools: therefore, I’m sure there’s no question of quality. Doesn’t seem to be overly expensive either, although I could only find a price on Shiny Shiny for £99.99. The product doesn’t show up in the dropdown menu for purchasing on the site.

The one thing it’s really missing is a good way to record interviews over VoIP. I know there are workarounds, but there really shouldn’t need to be. Give me that, and then I’d consider throwing together my own show! Hah!

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E3 is upon us once again (clearly, I am not there) but that means that there will be exciting video game news this week. Maybe a new Alliance race, maybe Halo 3, WHO KNOWS?! Anywho, I will be on yet another gaming podcast this week, The Instance, talking about lady gamers and WoW. I’m pretty excited, because it’s my new favorite gaming podcast. So give it a listen if you can, and tell me how I did.

Sorry for lack of updates, my finger is still terribly hurty. I’ve been keeping the typing at a minimum. But there are new pics from this weekend up on my Flickr (I actually went outside… shocking.)

Question: If you’re a gamer, what are you looking most forward to in the next year? Consoles, expansions, etc.

UPDATE: Ok, judging from my comments I need to be a little more thorough… Gamespot will be the best place to find tons of info on E3, including video and reviews, or go to http://e3.cnet.com. And yes, Dan, I still like the PC Gamer podcast, but you guys don’t talk about WoW nearly enough! Oh, and Ryan will be covering the Nintendo Wii event today, so go check out the liveblogging action here. Everyone happy now? I bruise my finger and everyone gets all huffy because I don’t write about them. Don’t say I never did anything for you…

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